>I have an old Win98 installation that I use for testing, and my new
>motherboard doesn't appear to support Win98. I would like to create a
>VPC using my existing Win98 installation. I use it only occasionally
>and to do a very special/limited set of things, and I set this thing
>up so long ago I don't remember how to set it up. If it's easy to
>incorporate it into a VPC, can someone point me to a procedure for
>doing this. If it's tricky to do, I'll just bite the bullet and do a
>new install, but I'd rather not have to do that.
>

>On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:03:27 -0500, jim evans
><(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>I have an old Win98 installation that I use for testing, and my new
>>motherboard doesn't appear to support Win98. I would like to create a
>>VPC using my existing Win98 installation. I use it only occasionally
>>and to do a very special/limited set of things, and I set this thing
>>up so long ago I don't remember how to set it up. If it's easy to
>>incorporate it into a VPC, can someone point me to a procedure for
>>doing this. If it's tricky to do, I'll just bite the bullet and do a
>>new install, but I'd rather not have to do that.
>>
>
>If the hardware it is running on now is "old" then you might be lucky
>with a p2v conversion.
>The procedure is about the same as you would use to move the operating
>system to a different physical platform with a new hard disk.
>
>- Use a disk imaging product to create an image of your existing hard
>disk. (Acronis or Ghost come too mind as products here). If they have
>something called "universal restore" or similar then that is what you
>want.
>
>- Then boot up the new virtual machine with the boot disk of the
>imaging software and transfer the image onto the empty virtual hard
>drive.
>
>- Then restart the virtual machine and cross your fingers.